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Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Bill's Booklist

A great recommended list of books from Bill Cork for "a college student interested in faith, philosophy and the Catholic Church":

The Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain.
Peter Kreeft, Christianity for Modern Pagans (or any of his books, for that matter!).
Lorenzo Albacete, God at the Ritz.
Luigi Giusanni, The Religious Sense.
___________, At the Origin of the Christian Claim.
___________, Why the Church?
John Paul II, Fides et Ratio (on the relationship between faith and reason).
___________, Veritatis Splendor.

I haven't read Merton's book, nor have I completed the second & third volumes of Giussani's trilogy, and I haven't read that particular Kreeft text... nonetheless, I can say that this really is an excellent list of texts, and I'd highly recommend them as well.

About Me

I grew up near Crosby, Minnesota... went to Ironton Elementary and then C-I jr. and sr. high. My family were members at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Deerwood.

I graduated from C-I in 1992 and when to the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) where I majored in Aeronautical Engineering through my sophomore year. In my junior year I switched to Political Science before having a "reversion" and returning to a deeper Catholic faith. I transferred to FUS in 1995 and graduated from there in 1997. I did my grad studies in Rome at the Angelicum, ultimately earning a doctorate in Theology. Along the way I married Germaine, and we currently have five kids, but since this is the internet, I'll leave them out of this. :-)